Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Paleovalley and Wild Pastures create nourishing food products and support regenerative agriculture through thoughtfully sourced products. The Senior Commercialization Project Manager leads cross-functional initiatives from approved product concept through launch and closeout, owning commercialization plans, StageGate governance, portfolio visibility, risk management, and process improvements.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, cross-functional commercialization initiatives for new products, product updates, packaging changes, and other innovation projects from approved concept through launch and closeout
- Own integrated commercialization plans for each project, including master timelines, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, owners, risk profiles, and launch-readiness requirements
- Own and continuously strengthen StageGate governance and cadence across the commercialization portfolio, ensuring required information, milestones, functional approvals, and decisions are in place before projects advance
- Serve as a commercialization subject-matter resource and trusted partner to functional leaders, providing structure, guidance, and recommendations on complex project and process challenges
- Facilitate commercialization and StageGate meetings, driving clear decisions, accountability, follow-through, and timely escalation across cross-functional stakeholders
- Coordinate launch readiness across Product Development, manufacturing, inventory, packaging procurement, Quality & Regulatory, eCommerce, Customer Service, Marketing, Finance, and other functions while teams retain ownership of their respective work
- Partner closely with Marketing Operations to align commercialization plans with the marketing launch plan, calendar, inventory readiness, creative dependencies, and launch timing
- Maintain project risk registers and proactively assess complex risks, blockers, resource constraints, and trade-offs, independently driving resolution where appropriate and escalating material business decisions when needed
- Evaluate cross-functional inputs and recommend whether projects should continue, pause, be re-scoped, postponed, accelerated, or reconsidered based on commercialization viability and business impact
- Maintain portfolio-level visibility across commercialization initiatives, providing leadership with clear, decision-ready insights into project health, progress, risks, resource constraints, dependencies, and opportunities to reprioritize work
- Drive go/no-go readiness by ensuring leaders and functional owners have the appropriate information, recommendations, approvals, and risk visibility required to make sound decisions
- Identify and implement improvements to commercialization systems, workflows, StageGate criteria, templates, governance practices, and cross-functional ways of working to improve speed, clarity, and execution reliability
- Lead commercialization retrospectives and translate lessons learned into scalable process improvements across future projects and the broader innovation portfolio
Skills
- This is a fully remote U.S.-based position. Candidates must reside and work in one of the following states due to tax and compliance requirements: AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IL, LA, MD, MO, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, TX, VA, WA, WI, or WY
- * 6+ years of progressive experience in project management, commercialization, new product development, product launch, or a related function, including independently leading complex cross-functional initiatives
- * Demonstrated experience leading significant projects or programs with multiple functions, senior stakeholders, concurrent workstreams, competing priorities, and substantial business impact
- * Strong experience building and managing integrated project plans, critical paths, risk registers, dependencies, decision points, and executive-level status reporting
- * Experience owning or significantly contributing to structured commercialization, new product development, or StageGate processes
- * Demonstrated ability to operate with substantial autonomy, navigate ambiguity, and independently resolve complex project and cross-functional challenges
- * Strong business judgment and analytical thinking, with the ability to evaluate cross-functional inputs, assess implications and trade-offs, and provide clear recommendations to leadership
- * Strong ability to influence decisions, create accountability, challenge assumptions, and move work forward across teams and senior stakeholders without direct reporting authority
- * Excellent facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information into clear risks, options, recommendations, and decisions for leaders and cross-functional teams
- * Demonstrated ability to identify and implement process improvements that strengthen project execution, governance, and organizational effectiveness
- * Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Monday.com, Google Workspace, or similar platforms
- * All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States
- * Bachelor's degree in business, project management, operations, supply chain, or a related field preferred; additional relevant professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
- * Experience leading commercialization or new product launches within CPG, food and beverage, supplements, natural products, or another regulated consumer-products environment
- * Experience serving as a commercialization, StageGate, PMO, or project-management subject-matter resource
- * Familiarity with product development, packaging, manufacturing, supply chain, Quality & Regulatory, eCommerce, and consumer product launch processes
- * Experience designing or significantly improving StageGate, commercialization governance, portfolio-management, or cross-functional project-management processes
- * PMP or other relevant project/program management certification
- * A passion for real food, wellness, sustainability, regenerative agriculture, or nutrient-dense nutrition
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% employer-paid dental/vision and a small monthly medical premium for employees; dependents may be added at employee cost
- Generous Paid time off to support balance and rest
- Paid sick time for when you need it
- Six (6) paid holidays each year
- Paid parental leave for growing families
- 100% company-paid Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
- 401(k) with up to a 4% company match after one year of service
- Monthly product stipend or access to perfectly imperfect damaged product so you can enjoy the nutrient-dense foods you help bring to others
- This is a fully remote U.S.-based position
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